Sentences with phrase «disease on imaging»

(A complete response means no visible evidence of disease on imaging scans and normal blood tests.)

All six patients showed stable disease on imaging (per RECIST criteria) at one month after treatment.

Not exact matches

MaRS London will build on London's recognized strengths in areas such as imaging, immune - based diseases and surgical technologies.

«Clearer vision of what's inside a tumor and what's going on in there: Researchers combine powerful imaging and metabolic analysis techniques to record disease events in high resolution.»

Scientists have long known that Alzheimer's disease is a gradual process and that the brain undergoes functional changes before the structural changes associated with the disease show up on imaging results.

These in turn depend on development of brain imaging tests or biomarkers that could be measured in the blood or other body fluids to allow a diagnosis of the disease in living people.

Findings from the study may help surgeons more confidently decide how to treat patients who have signs of adrenal masses on radiologic imaging but no symptoms of adrenal disease.

«The imaging technique could shed light on the immune dysfunction that underpins a broad range of neuroinflammatory diseases, such as Alzheimer's disease, depression, post-traumatic stress disorder and addiction,» said Christine Sandiego, PhD, lead author of the study and a researcher from the department of psychiatry at the Yale School of Medicine in New Haven, Conn. «This is the first human study that accurately measures this immune response in the brain.

The Connectome project has focused almost entirely on imaging the brains of healthy adults to provide a «gold standard» baseline for understanding diseased or injured brains.

TB can be identified on chest imaging, however TB - prevalent areas typically lack the radiology interpretation expertise needed to screen and diagnose the disease.

Drawing on ADNI data, which helped link Alzheimer's disease to a common gene called CLU, researchers used this imaging technique in other people to discover that the brain wiring of gene carriers is impaired decades before the disease typically strikes.

Changes in brain connections visible on MRI could represent an imaging biomarker of Alzheimer's disease, according to a new study presented today at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA).

«PROMISE establishes CTA as a viable alternative to stress testing for the evaluation of patients with suspected coronary disease,» said Udo Hoffmann, M.D., principal investigator of the PROMISE Imaging Core and Professor of Radiology at Harvard Medical School and Director of Cardiovascular Imaging at Massachusetts General Hospital «With the addition of high - risk plaque assessment and CT fractional flow reserve technology on the horizon, we may have yet to see the full potential of CTA.»

In further research, Dr. Evgenii Belykh, the leading research fellow on the project stated, «The imaging findings are being compared with the histology and biomarkers of disk degeneration that will eventually help to recognize and predict the disease earlier, and help to choose the best treatment option for each patient.»

The rest will be devoted to two groundbreaking clinical trials, one of which builds on the fact that Alzheimer's begins to attack the brain 10 - 15 years before symptoms appear — a conclusion confirmed by new imaging tools that allow the disease to be monitored in living people.

«Our goal is to focus on approaches that, when properly implemented, will lessen radiation risks for children with heart disease while still allowing the imaging procedures to be effective.»

A debate rages on whether President Reagan did or didn't have Alzheimer's disease during his time in office.With what we have learned in the last decade about the disease, the question is relatively meaningless, except perhaps to score political points.The simple answer: of course he did.The newest technology — consisting of imaging and spinal taps — shows that the disease process begins its relentless course as many as 15 years before a firm diagnosis.

By identifying body changes at the cellular level, PET may detect the early onset of disease before it is evident on other imaging tests.

JACC is the flagship for a family of journals — JACC: Cardiovascular Interventions, JACC: Cardiovascular Imaging, JACC: Heart Failure, JACC: Clinical Electrophysiology and JACC: Basic to Translational Science — that prides themselves in publishing the top peer - reviewed research on all aspects of cardiovascular disease.

The Pavilion will provide a new home for the University of Chicago Medical Center's most distinguished clinical programs, those that provide complex specialty care with a focus on cancer, gastrointestinal disease, neuroscience, advanced surgery and high - technology medical imaging.

«The majority of patients with detectable ctDNA relapsed within 1 year of surgery suggesting that ctDNA in the plasma appears to reveal occult metastatic disease that is not evident on radiological imaging,» the researchers wrote.

The more I learn about the disease, the more I believe that my expertise on optical imaging and cancer detection can be applied and translate to the field of glaucoma detection and prevention.

Subjects were also assessed on clinical endpoints using the Movement Disorder Society revision of the Unified Parkinson's Disease Rating Scale (MDS - UPDRS), and underwent brain MRI, dopamine transporter (DaT) SPECT imaging, and lumbar puncture for evidence of anti-AS antibodies in CSF.

Nanoscale imaging should have a fundamental impact on our understanding of cells and diseases and thus benefit all of us.»

More than 500 hospital employees will focus their efforts to help move patients on opening day of the new hospital, which is dedicated to specialty care in areas such as cancer, gastrointestinal disease, neuroscience, advanced surgery and high - tech medical imaging.

With key strengths in advanced medical imaging, cell biology, genomics, immunology and stem cell biology, our scientists and their skilled staff conduct research on some of the most debilitating diseases of our time: heart disease and stroke, Alzheimer's, cancer, organ failure, diabetes and many others.

Nuclear medicine is also different from other imaging procedures in that it determines the presence of disease based on biological changes in tissue rather than changes in anatomy.

The Center for Care and Discovery, located on the University of Chicago medical campus, provides a home for complex specialty care with a focus on cancer, gastrointestinal disease, neuroscience, advanced surgery and high - technology medical imaging.

Imaging scientist Dr. Aaron Fenster has generated more than 25 patents on 3D imaging systems being used around the globe to improve diagnosis of rectal and prostate cancers and carotid artery dImaging scientist Dr. Aaron Fenster has generated more than 25 patents on 3D imaging systems being used around the globe to improve diagnosis of rectal and prostate cancers and carotid artery dimaging systems being used around the globe to improve diagnosis of rectal and prostate cancers and carotid artery disease.

The operationalization of mild cognitive impairment (MCI) led to targeting earlier symptomatic cases of the illness and treatment strategies based less on pathology and more on a chance to halt or slow decline than there would be earlier in the disease.1 With the development of amyloid imaging, MCI due to AD diagnosis was refined, 2 and early - stage AD was extended further to include preclinical AD, 3 wherein a positive amyloid positron emission tomography (PET) scan or diagnostic low levels of cerebrospinal fluid β - amyloid (Aβ) indicated the presence of pathology in people who were cognitively normal.

November 9, 2017 - The research team from NTU Singapore tailored highly sensitive SPNs to track down and lock on to diseased tissues in the body such as cancerous cells, sending back near - infrared signals which can be received and interpreted by standard imaging...

Our new clinical trial on Alzheimer's disease and imaging, called REVEAL - SCAN, is currently recruiting.

I think the opportunity to blend people from different backgrounds, different disciplines, we have people who are biologists from the molecular level, through the systems level, blending with people who are really working much more in engineering, imaging, physical sciences and it's through those sorts of collaborations that I think we can really come up with new ideas and hopefully bring them forward to really make some progress on this difficult disease.

This set of standards and definitions for PAVD was independently reviewed by official appointees from the ACCF, AHA, American College of Radiology, Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions, Society of Interventional Radiology, Society for Vascular Medicine, Society for Vascular Nursing, Society for Vascular Surgery, and the ACCF / AHA Task Force on Clinical Data Standards, as well as experts from collaborating organizations, namely, the American College of Physicians; American Association of Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Rehabilitation; American Academy of Neurology; American Diabetes Association; National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute; Society of Atherosclerosis Imaging and Prevention; Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography; Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance; and Vascular Disease Foundation.

Professor Vesna Sossi will examine how positron emission tomography (PET) imaging has contributed to better understanding of the brain function and disease with particular focus on Parkinson's disease.

She directs the UBC Positron Emission Tomography (PET) imaging centre, which is known for its use of imaging as applied to neurodegeneration with emphasis on Parkinson's disease.

The team will continue to develop and test an imaging - based biomarker that can be used in a clinical setting to enable us to understand the molecular changes to the ganglion cells, so we can detect the disease very early on.

Kiran Solingapuram Sai, PhD, develops positron - based radiopharmaceuticals for diagnostic imaging and targeted disease treatment, with a specific focus on Alzheimer's disease, cancer and atherosclerosis.

Patients suffering from celiac disease have been found to have significant brain abnormalities as reflected on MR imaging (MRIs).

There are precedents that parallel our apparently paradoxical finding.36, 37 In a β - amyloid immunization trial among those with probable Alzheimer disease, immunization led to significant clinical benefit, reduced β - amyloid load, and reduced brain volume.36 The investigators hypothesized that removal of β - amyloid and / or other protein constituents from brain tissue may have caused cerebral fluid shifts, resulting in brain volume reductions on magnetic resonance imaging.

Purpose of Study: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the impact of imaging findings on surgical decision - making in dogs with colonic and rectal disease of any kind (cancer or non-cancer).

Once your veterinarian has identified your cat's disease, she will develop a treatment plan that best addresses your cat's needs based on what was learned from the history, physical examination, laboratory tests, and / or imaging results.

Depending on the exact nature of the disease as determined by advanced imaging, some cases of cervical stenosis respond to a surgical procedure known as a dorsal hemilaminectomy.

A Consultation on Special Imaging Techniques as important screening tools in the Geriatric Cat for early disease detection

A Consultation on Special Imaging Techniques as important screening tools in the Geriatric Dog for early disease detection

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Next on the work up to diagnose heartworm disease is special imaging.

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